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mail verb4 trans. Orig. US. E19.
[from MAIL noun3.]
Send (letters etc.) by post, post.
L. Hellman I..never had an answer to the letter I had mailed from New Orleans. J. Wilcox I want to mail out personalized appeals.
Comb.: mail-in noun & adjective (a) noun an item, as a promotion brochure, postal vote, etc., sent out or returned by post; (b) adjective (of an item, as a promotion brochure, postal vote, etc.) that is or can be sent through the post; (of a ballot, survey, etc.) conducted by post; mail-out adjective & noun (a) adjective = mail-in adjective above; (b) noun the action of sending out a number of items such as promotion brochures etc. at one time.
maila'bility noun the condition of being mailable L19.
mailable adjective acceptable for conveyance by post M19.
mailer noun (a) US a person who or thing which dispatches (letters etc.) by mail; (b) a mail-boat; (c) S. Afr. a middleman who buys liquor legitimately and resells it to an illicit liquor dealer or shebeen keeper; (d) a container for the conveyance of items by post; (e) an advertising pamphlet, brochure, etc., sent out by post; freq. in
self-mailer; (f) Computing a program that sends electronic mail messages: M19.